Shortlist Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz I Want! I Want! by Vicki Feaver FURY by David Morley Tiger Girl by Pascale Petit
2019 Winner Vertigo and Ghost by Fiona Benson Shortlist Noctuary by Niall Campbell Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here by Vidyan Ravinthiran City of Departures by Helen Tookey
2018 Winner Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
Shortlist Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo Black Sun by Toby Martinez de las Rivas Assurances by JO Morgan Wade in the Water by Tracy K Smith
2017 Winner On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
Shortlist Fourth Person Singular by Nuar Alsadir The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx by Tara Bergin Stranger Baby by Emily Berry Angel Hill by Michael Longley
2016 Winner Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
Shortlist The Blind Roadmaker by Ian Duhig Consider the Women by Choman Hardi Falling Awake by Alice Oswald Say Something Back by Denise Riley
2015 Winner Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Shortlist From Elsewhere by Ciaran Carson One Thousand Things Worth Knowing by Paul Muldoon The Boys of Bluehill by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain Due North by Peter Riley
2014 Winner The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller
Shortlist The Whole and Rain-domed Universe by Colette Bryce All One Breath by John Burnside Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Gluck I Knew the Bride by Hugo Williams
2013 Winner Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts
Shortlist Her Birth by Rebecca Goss Pluto by Glyn Maxwell Parallax by Sinead Morrissey The Havocs by Jacob Polley
2012 Winner PLACE by Jorie Graham
Shortlist White Sheets by Beverley Bie Brahic Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud by Barry Hill Odi Barbare by Geoffrey Hill People Who Like Meatballs by Selima Hill
2011 Winner Cat Bone by John Burnside
Shortlist Night by David Harsent Clavics by Geoffrey Hill A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley Voices Over Water by D Nurkse November by Sean O'Brien
2010 Winner Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
Shortlist Through the Square Window by Sinead Morrissey The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson Rough Music by Fiona Sampson Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
2009 Winner Rain by Don Paterson
Shortlist Hide Now by Glyn Maxwell One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds Better Than God by Peter Porter A Scattering by Christopher Reid West End Final by Hugo Williams
2008 Winner The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah
Shortlist Pure Lizard by Sujata Bhatt Another Country by Jane Griffiths Nigh-No-Place by Jen Hadfield Crocodiles & Obelisks by Jamie McKendrick Lip by Catherine Smith
2007 Winner The Drowned Book by Sean O'Brien
Shortlist Domestic Violence by Eavan Boland Gift Songs by John Burnside The Harbour Beyond the Movie by Luke Kennard Beasts of Nalunga by Jack Mapanje Birds with a Broken Wing by Adam Thorpe
2006 Winner Swithering by Robin Robertson
Shortlist Quicksand Beach by Kate Bingham Tramp in Flames by Paul Farley The Book of Blood by Vicki Feaver District and Circle by Seamus Heaney Redgrove’s Wife by Penelope Shuttle
2005 Winner Legion by David Harsent
Shortlist The Good Neighbour by John Burnside A Shorter Life by Alan Jenkins Woods Etc. by Alice Oswald Stolen Love Behaviour by John Stammers
2004 Winner The Tree House by Kathleen Jamie
Shortlist Newborn by Kate Clanchy The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzahler Snow Water by Michael Longley Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts
2003 Winner Breaking News by Ciaran Carson
Shortlist Nine Horses by Billy Collins The Lammas Hireling by Ian Duhig Minsk by Lavinia Greenlaw Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
2002 Winner Max is Missing by Peter Porter
Shortlist The Ice Age by Paul Farley Now and for a Time by John Fuller Flight by Vona Groarke Marriage by David Harsent
2001 Winner Downriver by Sean O'Brien
Shortlist The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson The Year’s Afternoon by Douglas Dunn Dragons by Matthew Francis Landscape with Chainsaw by James Lasdun
2000 Winner Conjure by Michael Donaghy
Shortlist The Asylum Dance by John Burnside The Donkey’s Ears by Douglas Dunn Jizzen by Kathleen Jamie A Smell of Fish by Matthew Sweeney
1999 Winner My Life Asleep by Jo Shapcott
Shortlist Samarkand by Kate Clanchy Prince Rupert’s Drop by Jane Draycott The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
1998 Winner Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Shortlist Glass and God by Anne Carson Zero Gravity by Gwyneth Lewis The Yellow Book by Derek Mahon The Breakage by Glyn Maxwell
1997 Winner The Marble Fly by Jamie McKendrick
Shortlist Violet by Selima Hill Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes Salt Water by Andrew Motion The Clever Daughter by Susan Wicks The Vigil by CK Williams
1996 Winner Stones and Fires by John Fuller
Shortlist Paleface by Charles Boyle Safe As Houses by UA Fanthorpe The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney Cabaret McGonagall by WN Herbert
1995 Winner Ghost Train by Sean O'Brien
Shortlist The Dead Sea Poems by Simon Armitage The Stinking Rose by Sujata Bhatt Ends and Beginnings by Iain Crichton Smith No Truce with the Furies by RS Thomas
1994 Winner Harm by Alan Jenkins
Shortlist In a Time of Violence by Eavan Boland The Handless Maiden by Vicki Feaver The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie Metamorphoses, Book VI, l.313-81 by Paul Muldoon The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon